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rezensiertes Werk: Gartner, Isabella: Menorah : Jüdisches Familienblatt für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur (1923–1932) ; Materialien zur Geschichte einer Wiener zionistischen Zeitschrift. - Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. - 356 S. ISBN 978-3-8260-3864-8
PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., erscheint seit 1997. Zunächst als Vereinsblatt unter dem Titel VJS-Nachrichten macht sich das Periodikum seit seiner Umbenennung 2004 zur Aufgabe, die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Berührungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen zu dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung.
Halakha and Microhistory
(2010)
Shifra was a Jewish businesswoman in Moravia in the fifteenth-century. In 1452 due to financial fraud she was arrested in Brno. Her life was saved by some members of the local Jewish community, who renounced their financial claims against their Christian neighbours in the exchange of Shifra’s life. However, one member of the community consented to the agreement only on condition that the other members would pay his losses. The case was extensively discussed in the correspondence of contemporary rabbis, among them Israel Bruna and Israel Isserlein. Their letters about the Shifra-affair reveal some important characteristics of the rabbinic authority in the late medieval Ashkenaz.
This study deals with the impacts of the Holocaust on the identity of the Jewish community in Slovakia. The author is interested in the question (whether and) in which form God remained among the survivors after Auschwitz. The available ethnological material has shown that suffering during the Holocaust often resulted into abandoning the religion, and particularly in Judaism. Many survivors broke up their contacts with Jewry. They often decided to join the communist party (either due to their conviction or opportunism.) Our research has indicated that for the majority of the Slovak Jews, God after the Holocaust is rather an abstract concept or non existing. However, he is definitely not the biblical God of the Tora and micvot, to which our ancestors used to pray.
Angestoßen durch Adolf von Harnacks Buch ‚Das Wesen des Christentum’ begann sich Leo Baeck (1873 – 1956) mit dem Judentum, und in dem Zusammenhang auch mit den Anfängen des Christentums in polemischer Art auseinanderzusetzen. Im Gegensatz zum Christus der Kirche möchte Baeck den Juden Jesus wieder entdecken. Dafür wertet er die Pharisäer auf und stellt Jesus in diese Gruppierung. Weiter rekonstruiert Baeck ein jüdisches Urevangelium, anhand dessen er aufzeigt, dass Jesus mit seiner Lehre vollständig innerhalb des Judentums geblieben sei. Im Gegensatz dazu vermische Paulus, der zwar als Jude geboren wurde, jüdische Inhalte mit denen der Mysterienkulte und erschaffe so etwas Neues, nämlich das Christentum. Diese Auffassung entwickelt Baeck in verschiedenen Schriften bis 1938. Nach der Shoah hat Paulus sogar mit seinen messianischen und apokalyptischen Vorstellungen für Baeck Platz im Judentum. Paulus verlasse es erst mit der positiven Antwort auf die Frage, ob der Messias schon gekommen sei. Leo Baeck war einer der Initiatoren des christlich-jüdischen Gesprächs. Seine Schriften geben den Impuls, über die strittigen Begriffe Gesetz und Gebot neu ins Gespräch zu kommen.
Between history and legend
(2010)
In the early modern period, Jewish historiography moved from the Hebrew domain into the Yiddish one. Jewish writers have succeeded to match the historical literature to the particular needs of their audience. The most popular Yiddish chronicle of this kind was written in Amsterdam in the 18th century by Menachem Man Amelander, following both the Jewish and Christian genre. This paper briefly surveys the genre characteristics of this chronicle and the way it served the purpose of guarding Jewish memory and tradition.
The article is a study research that attempts to reconstitute one facet of the Jewish cultural history, represented by the Jewish typographical activity in a geographic and historic context, i.e. North Transylvania at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The core of the study is represented by a detailed research of the typographical activity of Jacov Wieder’s printing house that he had set up in 1897 at Seini, a small locality in the county of Satu Mare. Wieder’s printing house, where some 150 Hebrew book titles were printed, was activated alongside with some other 20 Hebrew printing houses of the same county until 1944. The Hebrew books printed at Seini are thoroughly examined from the point of view of their subject and authors. The high technical quality of the print of Wieder’s printing house and not less the prestige of the authors contributed to its fame and reputation. The books were distributed throughout the world and reached the Jewish communities from countries in the immediate proximity Eastern, Central and Western Europe and even North America and the Land of Israel.
The article explores the pedagogical dimension of contemporary visual art which takes the Holocaust as a main subject of representation. It asks how a work of art can offer a viable alternative to the already existing methods or practices of Holocaust education, whose traditional aim is to endow the apprentice with an ‘absolute knowledge’ of the Holocaust. The article analyzes the characteristics and the effectiveness of a ‘performative’ approach to teaching about the Holocaust, which relies on an element of interaction and on critical self-reflection, by undertaking a close analysis of Your Coloring Book, – an art installation created by Israeli artist and representative of the third generation after the Holocaust, Ram Katzir.